Television

Television Game The Sims 2 (also available in The Sims) Buyable Buy Mode Price §500-§8,000 Type Skills, Needs Size 1x1, 1x2, wall/ceiling 1x1, wallx2

The Television is a buy mode object. The video game system is compatible with any TV set, if placed close enough.

Different styles exist, but they all function the same.

• Motives: Watching television increases a Sims Fun motive. Seating in front of the television allows a Sim to also regain Comfort. Several Sims can watch television together and improve their relationship while gaining Social.

• Skills: A Sim can use a television to "Work Out" if there is sufficient space in front of the set. Watching The Yummy Channel increases the cooking skill. Repairing a television set will increase the mechanical skill but there is a chance of electrocution as with all electronic devices.

• Hobbies: With FreeTime the television can be used to build enthusiasm in the Cuisine, Sports, Film and Literature, Music and Dance, Science, Tinkering, and Fitness hobbies. With a video game system it can also build Games enthusiasm.

Channels

The Sims:

• Cartoons
• Action
• Romance
• Horror

• Superstar: (available only with a satellite dish)
• Sports
• News
• Entertainment
• Animals

The Sims 2:

• Sims Broadcasting Network (SBN): Local Channel mainly for Adults
• KidzTube: Children's Channel for Kids
• SimStation Dance: Music Channel for Teens
• The Yummy Channel: Cooking - Sims can gain cooking skill from watching.

University:

• SimStation Sports Channel mainly for Young Adults

Seasons:

• The Weather Station: Gives a pop-up message forecasting the weather for the upcoming hours, although sometimes the weatherman is in a funny mood and will utter something completely unrelated instead...

FreeTime:

• No new TV channels per se but a new movies on-demand service.

Ikea Home Stuff:

• With Ikea: Home Stuff comes the cubby TV, and with the cubby TV comes two new commercials and one new mini program: one commercial for the colonial shower/bath, another pizza commercial featuring the Pleasant family, and a mini program featuring a man getting abducted by aliens.

The Sims 3:

The number of channels depend on the television

Basic (Old Timey Tele)

• KidZ Zone
• Romantic Rendezvous
• Sports Universe

Basic Plus(Channel Troller 27" Deluxe TV)

• Terror TV
• World Action
• Cookin' Cable

Premium (ÜberVison Panoramic from Landgraab Industries)

• Fracas Fishing
• Halls of History
• Got Garden

High Definition (36" HiFi Plasmondo TV from Landgraab Industries / WallVuu Standard TV)

• Super Shopping Network